Did you know that Bingo was originally called Beano

Its an interesting bingo trivia question - did you know that Bingo used to be known as Beano Laugh if you must but all bingo fanatics know its true and they also know the heritage and history behind how the game of bingo was invented and why the public took it into their hearts straight away. If you want to be just as clued up as every other bingo expert then read on to expand your bingo knowledge. Early games of Bingo were quite different, for a start the game was called Beano not Bingo. A dealer not a caller would take random numbered discs out of a cigarette box and call the numbers. Players would use beans to mark their cards with the numbers called. The use of beans in the then bingo game is probably what gave the game its title. It was in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States Of America that the first game of what was then still called Beano was played. The game was played at a carnival it was loud and noisy but then someone stood up and yelled bingo instead of shouting the proper term beano. Whilst all this was going on and this person was shouting bingo a man called Edwin S Lowe overhead the mistake and reckoned that bingo was a far catchier and more marketable name so he made the decision to rename the game bingo. Lowe was completely obsessed with the game of bingo and he asked a well respected professor called Leffler to work out for him what the odds of winning a bingo game were. At the same time Lowe asked Leffler to invent new combinations for the numbers on the bingo cards. Leffler mananged to invent over 6,000 new and different number combos but the legend is that the process drove him to lose his mind.